Weddingbee boards

I have to agree with lattelove. After our STDs went out, everyone pretty much was certain they were attending. I mean, like 90 percent of them. And this was also the case a few weeks before our invites were sent. We got a huge rush right after they were sent, and most of them were yes replies, with a few no's. And then a lot more no's than we thought started to occasaionally trickle in, along with probably an equal number of yes replies. Come deadline day, we had to track down 40 percent of our guest list, and we were surprised because we only invited like 90 people total, and very few people we didn't know well, so we thought we'd only have to track down about 20 percent.

Toward the end, I'd say everything was pretty much equal. For every few yes replies, we'd get a no. It pretty much matched up with what we had gotten. But the surprise was how many people, who were certain they were coming, couldn't at the last minute for medical reasons and family emergencies - and these people had already booked their hotels and everything. So yeah, you really can't even try to predict it.

I had to chase down like 75 RSVP's after the deadline...30 of which were my husband's out of state relatives...who never really gave a straight answer, but who we knew would not be able to make the trip.  It was realllllly frustrating.